Re: Fwd: Advance Notice: Working in progress on a RDF-star Working Group Charter

Dear Semantic Web crowd,

on behalf of the RDF-star task-force, following on the email below.

If your organization sees some interest in having RDF-star standardized 
as the new RDF, we ask you to express your support on our github 
repository. Follow the link below:

https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg-charter/issues/new/choose


thanks in advance

On 29/03/2022 10:06, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> after the publication, last December, of the final CG report on 
> RDF-star [1], the RDF-star informal task force is willing to move 
> forward, and turn it into a (set of) W3C recommendation(s). We have 
> prepared a draft charter for a future working group, which will now be 
> discussed by W3C member organizations, before being submitted to a vote.
>
> We are also seeking feedback from the Semantic Web community at large, 
> so do not hesitate to chime in, either on this mailing list or on the 
> dedicated Github repository [2].
>
>   best
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/2021/12/rdf-star.html

> [2] https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star-wg-charter/

>
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:  Advance Notice: Working in progress on a RDF-star Working 
> Group Charter
> Resent-Date:  Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:22:36 +0000
> Resent-From:  w3c-ac-members@w3.org
> Date:  Tue, 29 Mar 2022 14:22:25 +0800
> From:  xueyuan <xueyuan@w3.org>
> To:  w3c-ac-forum@w3.org
>
>
>
> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
> [This announcement will be forwarded to W3C group chairs]
>
> This is an advance notice that the W3C Team and RDF-DEV Community 
> Group [1] participants are currently working on a new charter for the 
> RDF-star Working Group, with a primary mission to extend a set of RDF 
> and SPARQL related recommendations, with the ability to concisely 
> represent and query statements about statements.
>
> RDF-star (initially spelled RDF*) is such an extension of RDF that was 
> initially proposed by Olaf Hartig and Bryan Thompson in 2014. It has 
> become quite popular, especially as a mean to provide interoperability 
> between RDF and Property Graphs, and has been already implemented to 
> various extent by a number of vendors and open-source libraries.
>
> A subgroup of the RDF-DEV Community Group then formed [2] to gather 
> feedback, use-cases, and explore the possibility of integrating 
> RDF-star into the existing RDF standards. The result of their work was 
> published as a CG report [3], which can serve as a basis for this 
> Working Group.
>
> Given the number of recommendations that this Working Group needs to 
> update, it is important to keep its scope very focused. Therefore any 
> other addition to RDF or SPARQL standards, except for pending 
> editorial errata [4,5], are out-of-scope. However, the Working Group 
> might consider taking advantage of the new W3C process [6] to allow 
> new features to be added in the future.
>
> The draft charter under development is at:
> https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star-wg-charter/

>
> We welcome your feedback. If you wish to make your comments public, 
> please use GitHub issues:
> https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg-charter/issues

>
> W3C Members may also discuss on the member-confidential mailing list 
> <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org> [7].
>
> If you have any questions or need further information, please contact 
> Pierre-Antoine Champin at <pierre-antoine@w3.org>.
>
> This announcement follows section 4.1 of the W3C Process Document:
> https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#WGCharterDevelopment

>
> Thank you,
>
> For Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director,
> Pierre-Antoine Champin, Data Strategist;
> Xueyuan Jia, W3C Marketing & Communications
>
> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-dev/

> [2] https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/

> [3] https://www.w3.org/2021/12/rdf-star.html

> [4] https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/wiki/RDF1.1_Errata

> [5] https://www.w3.org/2013/sparql-errata

> [6] https://www.w3.org/2021/Process-20211102/#allow-new-features

> [7] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-forum/

>
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